Suck You Dry · Mudhoney

95 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-33, 51-65 and 75-89 -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SUCK YOU DRY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 2 sections: 90 keep time and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-65.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suck You Dry?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Suck You Dry hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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